Last weekend, a couple of friends and I took a day trip down to Nagasaki for the annual Lantern Festival, a veritable mosh pit of glowing paper sculptures and steaming Chinese street food. It was a lovely excursion, as Nagasaki turned out to be much more charming and fun than you might expect from a city that boasts a slope as one of its prime tourist destinations. Getting there and back took almost eight hours total due to a series of unforeseen delays, but it was worth it. Besides, getting there is half the fun, right?
